Improvement in horse-rakes



GOSS. HQRSB RAKB.

Patented June 9, 1868.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

C. N. GOSS, OF CLAREMONT, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

l IMPROVEMENT IN HQRSE-RAKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 78,80l, dated June 9, Lilli-l.

To alt whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, C. N. Goss, ot' Clare-- mont, county of Sullivan, and State of New Hampshire, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Horse-Rakes; and Indo hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ot' the sam e, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view ot' aralie embracing my improvements, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same.

Similar letters of reference denote correspondin g lparts in both figures.

My invention relates to that class of wheeled horse-rakes which employ wooden teeth. 5 and it consists in a novel arrangement ot' the two pivots or centers upon which the tooth-bars turn relative to the shafts or thills, as hereinafter described.

It further consists in the employment of a yielding stop or pressure-bar so arranged relative to the raketooth points as to resist the independent movement ot' the tooth-bars without interfering with their vibration upon a commonicenter for discharging their loads or for passing an obstruction.

It further consists in a novel arrangement of levers for operating the rake-tooth bars and rake-teeth, whereby the bars and teeth may be raised to discharge their load or held down to their work with the required pressure by the driver in his seat on the machine; and it further consists in a novel construction and arran gementof coil-sprin grrelative to the pivoted raketeeth and tooth bars, as hereinafter described.

lrlo enable others to understand and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawings,

` in which- A Arepresenttwo earryingwheels, mounted loosely ou a common axle, B,to which the rear ends of the shafts or thills C C are connected by rnortseor tenon, or iu other suitable and substantial manner. At a convenient disin the forward ends of which the tooth-bars E are pivoted loosely and independently of each other, either upon a common pivot, d, extending through the series,or bya nnmberof short independent pivots arranged in line with each other, as may be preferred. The barsE extend backward from the pivot d, resting upon the pivot bar or shaftl), to a point slightly "torward of themain axle B,and are provided at their rear ends with vertical slots or mortises c, in which the wooden teeth F, made in form substantially as represented in the drawings, are pivoted, the slots or mortises being elongated to allow any desired amount. ot' play or vibration of the teeth relative to the bars E. The upper or heel ends of the teeth F extend slightly above the toothlbars, and are provided with staples f, through which the upperfree end of a coil-sprin`g, G, plays, the action or ten-v sion of the spring serving to draw the upper end ol' the teeth back ward and' to resist the'action of the load or any backward lstrain upon the points thereof.- The lower or opposite end ofthe spring or coil is fastened in the rear end of the tooth-bar, and is further secured there-A to by means of a staple passing through the coil. The bar or rocklshaftl) has two upright arms or levers, H, rigidly attached to it, provided'with guide brackets or loops., h, in which is arranged a transverse stop or pressure bar, Iextending over the series of tooth-bars and the shaft U, in the manner represented in Fig. 1. Springs t', of any suitable form or construction, are employed to hold the barI I down upon the tooth-bars E. The teeth bars or arms are thus clamped between the pivot or rock shaft D and the yielding bar I in such manner that while the independent upward movemeut of the teeth upon pivot d in meeting a slight obstacle is resisted by the yielding barV I with any desired force., said bar being connected through arms H to the shaft D, zheopr eration of raising the teeth together ischarging their load or for passing an obstruction-is not ali'ected thereby. The degree of resistance ot bar I to the independent movement ofthe teeth may be adjusted by means ot' a setscrew regulating the tension ofthe spring, orby the spring itself, which may be so made as to yield easily at tirst with a gradually-increas-- ing resistance, until it shall be sufficient to receive the weight of all the teeth, causing it to turn or raise them upon the rock-shaft D. The

upper ends of standards H are slotted to receive the forward ends of rod J, pivoted thereto, the rear ends of said bars being in turn pivoted to the lower ends of upright pivoted le-v vers K, mounted in uprights L. rigidly connected with the axle B or shafts C in any suitable manner. The upper ends of leversK are united by a lever bar or handle', M, within convenient reach of the driver on seat N, as represented in the drawings. By this arrange- 4'ment of levers the driver is enabled, by simply pressn g forward on the bar or handle M or leversK, to hold the teeth down to their work with any required force, and when a sufficient load has been gathered thereby, by simply reersing the movement of the levers and drawing. back the same, the shaft D is rolled forward in its bearings, and the tooth-bars resting thereon are raised to discharge their load v in a manner that will be readily understood.

` Having now described my improvements in -holse-rakes, what l claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The arrangement of the two pivots or centers D d, upon which the Vtooth-bars turn in the described relation to each other and to the shafts or thills, for the purposeset forth.

2. The arrangement ofthe stop-bar I relal tive to the tooth-bar' pivots D substantially as and for thepurpose set forth;

3. The arran gement ofthe rock-shaft D, substantially as described, whereby it is made to constitute the rest or support-of the independently-pivoted tooth-bars, as well as the com'- mon center upon which said tooth-bars are vibrat-ed to discharge the gathered load.

4. The levers H and L, .in combination with.

' the pivotedtooth-.bars'and stop-bar I,'substan C. N. GOSS.

Witnesses:

I. R.. COOPER, J No. L.' FARWELL. 

